Looking for some easy recipes using tigernut flour? Here are a few: My very own Vegan Fudge Brownie Cake, which I made for my birthday. Lavender Coconut Tigernut Flour Cookies Wanderlust Tigernut Breakfast Cookies (note: I personally would either replace the coconut sugar with erythritol or stevia, or simply omit it altogether. And I’d make Read more about 6 Super Simple *VEGAN* Recipes Using Tigernut Flour[…]

One of the cool new features in Low Carb Menu Planner allows you to view macronutrient information for a selected recipe serving size. I found this recipe, which looks really delicious. I wanted to add it to LCMP so I could build it into my daily menus. Also, by adding it to LCMP, I can Read more about LCMP— New Feature[…]

I’m super excited that Low Carb Menu Planner, with updated features, is now available in the App Store! After the free trial period, a subscription is required for continued access to all features of the app. Now you can track your macros per day, per meal, and per selected recipe serving size! And, all recipes Read more about Low Carb Menu Planner Back in the App Store![…]

Here are three simple tips that can help you increase the quality of your diet: Opt for real, whole, unprocessed foods. Vegetables! Fruits! Wild caught seafood! This is real food, and it’s delicious. Check the ingredients list to make sure there’s no added sugar. Especially pay attention to nuts/nut butters and spices/seasonings/condiments. Read more about 3 Simple Food Tips[…]

When you decide to follow the meal plan in My Low Carb Café or My Paleo Café (available in the App Store and Google Play), you’ve now got an actual plan for weight loss. The actions you can take to control your weight include reviewing the meal plan in the app, buying the food you’ll Read more about Want to Lose Weight?[…]

I’ve been listening to some of the talks from the Food Revolution Summit. Here are my notes from Day 7. Speakers were David Katz, MD; Neal Barnard, MD, and Mark Hyman, MD. Katz Meat, butter, cheese not part of a healthy diet. However, SOME meat might be ok, but it depends on the type of Read more about Food Revolution Summit 2017[…]

I made a vegan, gluten free, sugar free, oil free, dairy free cake for my birthday and it was amazing. Even meat eaters loved it. To make the frosting, I used a very small amount of stevia extract powder (the only ingredient in the product I used is “organic stevia extract (stevia rebaudiana) (leaf).”). I Read more about Vegan Fudge Brownie Cake[…]

I generally recommend you eat the highest quality food you can afford— organic, pastured, grass fed, wild, whole, and unprocessed. On a high fat low carb diet, it’s especially important to choose organic, pastured, free-range, and grass-fed animal products in order to ensure that the animal fat you eat is high quality. In Read more about Food Quality Matters[…]

If you are struggling with your weight and eating habits, your solution to “control yourself” might involve jumping from one restrictive diet to the next, looking for the perfect macronutrient calculation to tell you exactly how much to eat, or eliminating generally healthy “problem foods” like nuts from your diet. I suggest you stop Read more about Embrace Discomfort[…]